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John J Pershing
General in world war 1 -
Glenn Curtiss
American aviation pioneer -
1882
an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States. -
Marcus Garvey
Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator -
Alvin york
one of the most decorated American soldiers in World War I -
Dorothea Lange
influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist -
Langston Hughes
American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. -
Charles lindburg
American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist. -
The Great Migration
movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West -
jazz music
a genre of music that originated in African-American communities during the late 19th and early 20th century -
Sussex Pledge
a promise made in 1916 during World War I by Germany to the United States -
Red Scare
promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism -
Battle of Argonne forrest
a part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front. -
Treaty of Versailles
one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. -
Warren G. Harding’s “Return to Normalcy”
A campaign promise in the 1920 election -
Harlem Renaissance
a movement that spanned the 1920s. -
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The Great Depression
severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II -
The Dust Bowl
a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s -
The New Deal
a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938